Dr Tim Cavagnaro

Senior Lecturer

B Ag Sc (Hons) & PhD. University of Adelaide

Telephone: +61-3-9905- 5793
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: tim.cavagnaro@monash.edu

Information on current projects and potential research/honours projects can be found under each of the following research themes

Prior experience in soil science is not required, but is certainly welcome!

• Research Theme 1. Soil ecology and nutrient cycling
• Research Theme 2. Plant nutritive value and food security in a changing climate
• Research Theme 3. Arbuscular mycorrhizas: sustainable production systems

Potential honours topics

• Soil health assessment. Cavagnaro TR. Department of Sustainability and the Environment, Bass Coast Landcare. 2010-2011.
• Toxic crops in a high CO2 world: Mozambique a case study. Cavagnaro TR, Gleadow R & Cliff J. 2009-2011.
• Re-balancing global resources: Manipulating toxic prussic acid (dhurrin) to improve nitrogen use efficiency in forage sorghum in a changing climate. Gleadow R, Hamill J, Cavagnaro TR & Moeller B. Australian Research Council Linkage Project. 2010-2012.
• The Carbon Project: carbon, biodiversity and water balance consequences of whole-catchment carbon farming. Thompson R, Beringer J, Cavagnaro TR, Mac Nally R, Baker, P, Eigenraam M, Metzeling L, Cunningham S, Thomson J. Australian Research Council Linkage Project. 2009-2013
  Web site (http://www.biolsci.monash.edu.au/research/acb/carbon/)

• Cavagnaro: Monash Research Accelerator program, 2011-12.
• Little: Phyllis Hillgrove scholarship. 2011-13
• The Monash cyanogenesis group, of which the Monash Soil Ecology Lab is a member: Faculty of Science Award for Excellence in Innovation and External Collaboration, 2010.
• Cavagnaro, Baker and Burd: Australian Society of Plant Scientists Teaching Award to, 2010.
• Cavagnaro, Baker and Burd: Commendation for excellence in botanical teaching, Dean, faculty of Science, Monash University, 2010.
• Cavagnaro, Wallis and Patti: Invited to testify at Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into soil carbon, 2010.
• Wong: Best Young Scientist poster, International Association of Vegetation Science, 2010.
  
• Cavagnaro: Invited participant, Aust. Academy of Sciences, Theo Murphy High Fliers Think Tank, 2009.
• Mosse: 2009 Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship.
• Cavagnaro: Invited participant, Aust. Academy of Sciences, Science at the Shine Dome, 2009.

• Asghari HR, Cavagnaro TR (2011). Arbuscular mycorrhizas enhance plant interception of leached nutrients. Functional Plant Biology, 38: 219-226.
• Cavagnaro TR, Martin AW (2011). Arbuscular mycorrhizas in southeastern Australian processing tomato farm soils. Plant and Soil. 340: 327-336.
• Cavagnaro TR, Gleadow RM, Miller RE (2011). Plant nutrient acquisition and utilisation in a high CO2 world. Functional Plant Biology. 38: 87-96.
• Mosse KM, Patti AP, Christen EW, Cavagnaro TR (2011). Winery waster water quality and treatment options in Australia. Australian Journal of Grape and Winder Research. In press.  
  

• Burger B, Reich P, Cavagnaro TR (2010). Trajectories of change: riparian vegetation and soil ocnditions following livestock removal and replanting. Austral Ecology 35: 980-987.
  
• Burns A, Gleadow RM, Cliff J, Zacarias A, Cavagnaro TR (2010). Cassava: the drought, war and famine crop in a changing world. Sustainability. 2: 3572-3607.
• Burns A, Gleadow R, Cliff J, Cavagnaro TR (2010). Effects of increasing carbon dioxide emissions and climate change on nutritional quality of food crops: a case study on cassava. Newsletter of the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition, issue No. 38: Nutrition & Climate Change.
• Cavagnaro TR and Martin AW (2010). The role of mycorrhizas in plant nutrition: field and mutant based approaches. Proceedings (refereed) of the World Soil Congress, Brisbane, Australia.
• Mosse K, Patti A, Cavagnaro TR (2010). Evidence of soil microbial population acclimatisation to long-term application of winery wastewater. Proceedings (refereed) of the World Soil Congress, Brisbane, 2010. 
• McKey DB, Cavagnaro TR, Cliff J, Gleadow RM (2010). Chemical ecology in coupled human and natural systems: people, manioc, multitrophic interactions and global change. Chemoecology. 20: 109-133.
• Mosse KMP, Patti A, Christen E, Cavagnaro TR (2010). Winery wastewater inhibits seed germination and vegetative growth of common crop species. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 15: 63-70.
• Tran J, Cavagnaro TR (2010). Growth and mycorrhizal colonization of two grasses in soils with different inundation histories. Journal of Arid Environments. 74:715-717.
• Cavagnaro TR, Dickson S, Smith FA (2010). Arbuscular mycorrhizas modify plant responses to soil zinc addition. Plant and Soil. 329:307-313.

• Gleadow R, Cavagnaro TR, O'Donnell N, Neale A, Blomstedt C, Hamill J (2009). Unbalancing global resources: Will plants be edible in a high CO2 world? Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology: 153a (2): s225-s225.
• Gleadow RM, Evans JR, McCaffery S, Cavagnaro TR (2009). Growth and nutritive value of cassava (Manihot esculenta Cranz.) are reduced when grown in elevated CO2. Plant Biology. 11: 76-82.
• Li X, Zhu Y-G, Cavagnaro TR, Chen M, Sun J, Chen X, Qiao M (2009). Do ammonia-oxidizing archea respond to soil Cu contamination similarly as ammonia oxidising bacteria? Plant and Soil. 324: 209-217.

• Cavagnaro TR (2008). The role of arbuscular mycorrhzas in improving plant zinc nutrition under low soil zinc concentrations: a review. Plant and Soil. 304: 315-325.
  
• Cavagnaro TR, Jackson, LE, Hristova, K, Scow, KM (2008). Short-term population dynamics of ammonia oxidising bacteria in an agricultural soil. Applied Soil Ecology. 40: 13-18. 
• Cavagnaro TR, Langley, AJ, Jackson LE Smukler SM, Koch GW (2008). Growth, nutrition, and soil respiration of a mycorrhiza-defective tomato mutant and its mycorrhizal wild-type progenitor. Functional Plant Biology. 35: 1-8.  
• Jackson LE, Burger M, Cavagnaro TR (2008). Roots, nitrogen transformations and ecosystem services. Annual Review of Plant Biology. 59:341-63.
• Mac Nally R, Cunningham S, Shelly K, Sgro C, Thompson R, Lake PS, Sunnucks P, Cavagnaro TR, O'Dowd D, Baker P, Beadall J (2008). Biodiversity and climate change. - In: Garnaut, R. (ed.) Garnaut Climate Change Report. Cambridge University Press, p. 680.

• Cavagnaro TR, Sokolow SK, Jackson LE (2007). Mycorrhizal effects on growth and nutrition of tomato under elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide. Functional Plant Biology. 34: 730-736.
• Cavagnaro TR, Jackson LE (2007). Isotopic fractionation of zinc in field grown tomato. Canadian Journal of Botany. 85: 230-235.
• Cavagnaro TR, Jackson LE, Scow KM, Hristova KR (2007). Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizas on ammonia oxidizing bacteria in an organic farm soil. Microbial Ecology. 54: 618-26.
• Minoshima H, Jackson LE, Cavagnaro TR, Ferris H (2007). Short-term fates of carbon-13-depleted cowpea shoots in no-till and standard tillage soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 71: 1859-1866.
• Minoshima H, Jackson LE, Cavagnaro TR, Sánchez-Moreno S, Ferris H, Temple SR, Mitchell JP (2007). Soil food webs and carbon dynamics in response to conservation tillage in legume rotations in California. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 71: 952-963.